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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 07:52 PM
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Need Help on Bush quote calling troops "kids"
Can anyone help? I believe it was in a Washington briefing. Thanks.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 07:57 PM
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1. He referred to sending 21,500 more kids to Iraq during the
interview with Jim Lehrer on the News Hour.

PRESIDENT BUSH: -- that - where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim. Obviously it's a big decision for this theater in the war on terror, and you know, if I didn't believe we could keep the egg from fully cracking, I wouldn't ask 21,000 kids - additional kids to go into Iraq to reinforce those troops that are there.

Transcript here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/jan-june07/bush_01-16.html
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 08:10 PM
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2. Thank you so much. n/t
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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-21-07 09:33 PM
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3. Now THERE is a visual to come back and bite him in the ass...
"Sending the kids to Iraq"...
pictures of children in camo and gear...BEFORE the IEDs go boom. :cry::grr::banghead:

Worth 1,000 words, ya think?
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